The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

GLOSSARY

Acronyms

ATTO

Ambient Temperature Tactical ODEC

CHRONTEL

document label; intelligence gathered by DOers

C/COD

Conventional/Contemporary Operations Department

CRONE

Chronodynamic Research for Optimizing Next Engagement

DEDE

Direct Engagement for Diachronic Effect

DNI

Director of National Intelligence

DODO

Department of Diachronic Operations

DOer

Diachronic Operative

DOOSH

Diachronic Operative Occupational Safety and Health

DORC

Diachronic Operative Resource Center

DORCCAD

DORC Cartographic and Architectural Database

DOSECOPS

Diachronic Operations Security Operations

DoVE

Department of Violence(s) Ethnology

DTAP

Destination Time and Place

EFOT

Extra-Facility Operations Team

GLAAMR

Galvanic Liminal Aura Antecedent to Manifold Rift

GRIMNIR

neo-ragtag successor to ODIN; not an acronym

HOSMA

Historical Operations Subject Matter Authority

IARPA

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency

IPOPWI

Infinite Pasts, One Present, Weighted Influence

KCW

Known Compliant Witch

MAGOPs

Magical Operations

MAGSEC

Magical Security

MARS

Martial Arts Research Summary

NEER

Northern Europe, Early Renaissance

NELM

Northern Europe, Late Medieval

NOCHRON

document label; not to be viewed by Anachrons

ODEC

Ontic Decoherence Cavity

ODIN

Operational DODO Intranet

OPIFDI

One Present, Infinite Futures, Diffuse Influence

PEP

Performance Enhancement Plan

POOJAC

Policy on Official Jargon and Acronym Coinage

QUIPU

Quantum Information Processing Unit

RAFSTIQUORDOT

mnemonic for what to do during/after Diachronic Shear

SARF

Supervised Anachron Residential Facility

SLIT

Something Less Than Infinite Time

UDET

Unity of DOer-Experienced Time

Terms

áireamhán

Irish name for broom-quipu object used like abacus by witches

Anachron

historical person brought forward in time to modern day

Diachronic Shear

infernal, catastrophic response of the universe to too-extreme changes being wrought as a result of diachronic activity

diakrónikus nyírás

Hungarian term for Diachronic Shear

lomadh

Irish word for Diachronic Shear

Shiny Hat

ultra-paranoid secure operating system

Strand

parallel universe

számológép

Hungarian name for quipu-like object used like abacus by witches

Wending

witch practice/superpower of jumping sideways between Strands